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Today we had our last project meeting for Eurospectives 2.0.

Once the project is finished and looking back at the work we did, we can conclude that it has been worth it. After the first year of sharing research, concepts, ideas and good practices, all partners managed to agree on consensual language and content for the curriculum. 

Through this piece, Youth Time will take you to the capital city of Denmark, Copenhagen, to talk with Garba Diallo, Founding Director of Crossing Borders, a non-profit, civil society organisation educating and empowering young people to become active global citizens.

While the coronavirus epidemic is putting our lives in turmoil across the world and turning our societies unrecognisable over night with limited mobility; empty streets, schools and airports; lockdown of countries; restrictions on our social pursuits and freedoms and militant directives on social distancing in order to urgently diminish its spread, it might just also provide a necessary reset and (ironically) connect us closer together.

That most countries, including the most advanced ones, are ill-prepared for the sudden COVID 19 outbreak proves that the world has not invested in where it matters the most: relevant education, public health, decentralized provision of vital goods and services. The result is the panic and uncoordinated and fragmented responses we witness right now.

It was quite sad today to finish a week of inspiring training, that sees the end of a longstanding Erasmus plus project with European partners from Germany, Denmark, Italy, Greece and Spain.

Stephanos Cherouvis, one of our Greek partners at Ellinogermaniki Agogi, has written this blog on the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece and the ongoing concerns and issues surrounding the use of digital tools in education settings.

Alessandro, one of our partners at COSV, has written this blog for us on working and communicating during the COVID-19 lockdown.

These days, everyone involved in activism is asking the same questions: Which tools and strategies can I use to keep my message relevant and out there? What can I do to be seen, heard, noticed and not forgotten?

Our Spanish partners at CFR Vigo have been on lockdown since 13th March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. They have written a message for the blog, updating the project on how they're doing.